[Info-vax] Databases, LDAP and the limitations of RMS-file-based authentication

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-01-06 05:59:16 +0000, David Froble said:

> 
> What I believe I ran into was the data associated with the context 
> pointer.  It's been a while, and I tend to forget things that cause me 
> pain.  No where could I find (talking about me, not things in general) 
> how to set up a structure for the context to point to.  At least, I 
> think that was the problem.

That would be a longword (for APIs and compilations involving 32-bit 
addressing) or a quadword (involving 64-bit addressing), usually zeroed 
before its first use though that's dependent on the API definitions, 
and passed by reference.  There are traditional VMS APIs that use 
similar contexts.

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